macleodan
This seems especially unappealing for people who like the old web.
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Full stack and ops generalist. Have built first version of a startup from requirements / business analysis through front end, backend (Ruby on Rails), payment, email (AWS SES), sms integrations, infrastructure design and deployment on dedicated servers with Ansible. Interest in security and secure messaging.
Ruby, Rails, Java, Perl, Javascript, Ansible, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, DNS, NTP, SMTP,...
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Perl 5 is still under active development. The latest stable release was version 18.2, made in January. Perl 5 will continue to exist even when more people start using Perl 6. Also, Perl 6 is available and usable already.
I have learnt it, a bit, for amateur radio, where it is still used. There are lots of wee applications for it too, like showing status messages on a small electronic device using a single LED.
There have been times I have wished more people know it, for example for communicating with light accross a mountain valley, or communicating underwater.
One major thing I don't like though are the highly restrictive options for gender and orientation. In the case of a dating site, classifying gender does seem like a neccesary evil, but the options could at least allow more people to sign up. I would suggest, as one possibility, adding more options, such as none and other, and also making this a check box selection for people with more than one gender.
Additionally, why do you ask for orientation? You don't need to know this, and you fail to ask the necessary question of "which genders would you like to be matched with". These things are not the same. This section could also allow check box selection of desired matches.
Also, the USB cable may be too high resistance, causing a voltage drop.
Griffin: http://mm0hai.net/blog/2012/09/30/Griffin-USB-Car-Charger.ht...
Unbranded, common on ebay. http://mm0hai.net/blog/2012/08/01/Message-to-an-ebay-seller....
They were both awful. I would be interested to know about a known good one.